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Office Superintendent Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands 
District of Mobile 
Mobile, Ala, March 30 1866

Brevet Colonel
C. Cadle jr
A. A. General
Montgomery Ala

Colonel
When Captain Kerr was in this city he sold to Mr Fred Howard a Flat-boat that had been seized as being the property of the late C.S. Navy. Some time after the boat had been sold to Mr. Howard it was seized by order of Acting
Rear Admiral H.K. Thacher Comdg the Gulf Squadrons as belonging to the Navy. When the boat was seized by Capt Kerr it was in the hands of a citizen. to whom it appears it had been loaned by an Officer of the Navy. Mr Howard paid Capt Kerr $300. for the boat